Posted
by
CmdrTaco
on Thursday March 31, 2011 @11:52AM
from the each-one-unique-and-valuable dept.

siliconbits writes "Analyst firm In-stat has calculated that well over 10 billion social networking and online world accounts have been created by the end of 2010 with nearly half of them (4.5 billion) still active. The growth of free social networking websites like Facebook or Twitter can be credited for the exponential rise in the number of so-called SNOW accounts. Where before, virtual worlds were the realm of paid-for subscription-based gaming services like World of Warcraft, the pervasiveness and ease of access of the newcomers means that more people are creating accounts online than ever before."

Help me out here, there's a bunch more; stuff about a Megan Snow, more about Mac OS X, none of them seem to fit the nature of the article. At which result in this "google" search you suggested am I suppo

"Analyst firm In-stat has calculated that well over 10 billion social networking and online world (SNOW) accounts have been created by the end of 2010 with nearly half of them (4.5 billion) still active...."

besides than everything else wrong with the calculation(and the starting logic for doing it..).. they should've calculated all bbs's too. and forums. and everything. making the average accounts per person jump to such a high number that the calculation tells nothing. they could've just as well said 50 billion.

but they don't want to portray themselfs as online expers, but as "social network" experts. the difference? a social network exper

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you IANASNOW. Well, I'm not. What would be more interesting to me, from a statistical point of view, is;-a) how many of those 'still active' accounts are actually 'still used', and how many are dead accounts that people just couldn't be arsed to go through the agro of trying to close downb) how many people actually own those 10bn accounts? I'm sure that there are many people out there who have a Twitter, FB, My[ ], WoW, 2nd Life etc - so how many billion individual people are actually on social networking / on-line world accounts.

Statistically I suspect that will show that I am still, statistically at least, 'normal'.

I know you meant roughly "I am not a social networking [or] online world [user]", but it does make me wonder whether Mark Zuckerberg can snow IANA with enough money to give him his very own IP address system. I mean, given the whole Newark school thing and that Facebook has its own AS number [arin.net]...

Pretty much any multihomed installation with multiple distinct providers is going to have its own AS number, its more or less required if you want multipath routing to work well with multiple upstream providers if you want any control over your routing.

These numbers really cant be real, there isn't any real way to getting these numbers apart from the soucrce of the website, even then the numbers will be constantly changing and huge huge numbers of the accounts are fakes, inactive or bots.

Are you implying that a website or social networking site would, um, exaggerate their number of subscribers to appear more relevant or extract higher revenues from their advertisers? Why, I've never;-)

I have a twitter account and clear out followers now and then. Most of them seem to be of the sort which sign up, post a link to their secret fat burning system and then disappear (Remove unwanted fat - Deluxe In-Home Guillotine Kit!)

In some headline I saw somewhere, could even have been/., 0.5% do 80% of the nattering.

So, there are 10 Billion social network accounts and only 7 billion people on Earth. People, there can only be one answer!

Space Liens are using Earth's social network sites!

Alien's, if you're reading this now, you have everything to fear! Stay hidden!

More than likely, you're pretty tasty and if you have an orifice, you're probably a good fuck for many people out there!

Hide for your LIVES!!!

If they're on the intarwebs already they know where you are hiding. Fear not, stout fellow, they aren't here to abduct and probe you, they're here to bore you with the details of their dreary lives on Planet 470932, where life has degenerated to the point they watch Flash ads from Earth for the thrill of it.

I was wondering about that to, but I guess they added Facebook, Twitter, Hyves and everything else. These demograpics overlap a lot. I would presume 95% of the people who have a Hyves account would have a Facebook and a twitter account as well. This would lower the total people to about 5G. Add a percentage of spammers (guestimated at 50%) and you have only 2.5G left. Remove padding by the operators of those networks and my guess would be about 1G. Still a lot, but not more than the total number of people o

"The growth of free social networking websites like Facebook or Twitter can be credited for the exponential rise in the number of so-called SNOW accounts. Where before, virtual worlds were the realm of paid-for subscription-based gaming services like World of Warcraft, the pervasiveness and ease of access of the newcomers means that more people are creating accounts online than ever before."

Comparing a website to a 3d persistent game world is beyond dumb. While both have a social interactivity component, t

I had 30 accounts at the height of my Farmville game. (It wasn't an addiction: I could quit at any time, although I made sure to exploit the hell out of it before I did.) The little baby accounts fed my main account the 16 farmville buck Mystery Boxes, so I could unlock the mystery box blue ribbon. The accounts have since been passed on to friends playing other games since I've decided to ignore Zynga. I still get the occasional FB notice about reconnecting with them, so they haven't been swept away jus

This reminds me of a satire (Mad or Cracked magazine) on how the military can create impression of more units than they have. One concept presented are tanks with large mirrors mounted in front facing the vehicle, likewise for the rear. Multiple reflections creates illusion of a column of hundreds of tanks (like what you see when standing between two mirrors). Another were inflatable soldier standups like those that when pushed over they right themselves back up.